Posted on 12/21/2017 6:24:15 PM PST by BlessedBeGod
"As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, another soul from purgatory springs."
Dirty rotten crooks...So, what else is new at the Vatican?
These people must truly not believe in God or the judgment awaiting them.
What a job. I could wish I was a Catholic rather than a Baptist at this kind of dough.
Kidding kidding kidding!
The priests in the small towns across the U.S. get hefty payments from some members. Every town.
Well, Pope Francis and his pals are modeling themselves on the Communists. And Communists have to have a Politburo, don’t they?
Influence buying? Not that it can’t happen in other parts of Christendom too.
There's alot more going on than church business...... money laundering works in the syndicates that operate with high revenue volume...the catholic church has been a 'business' operation for decades and decades...... much as with the mormon organization.
An expert in ‘moral theology’. An admirer of Barack H Obama as well, I suspect.
As the influence increases so does the temptation to misuse it. To the point that Mafiosos can get away with calling themselves pious. So what’s new? Pharisees and Sadducees keep on popping up. All over Christendom. Denominations shouldn’t be bashing one another over this. Pride goes before a fall.
“There’s alot more going on than church business...... money laundering works in the syndicates that operate with high revenue volume...the catholic church has been a ‘business’ operation for decades and decades...”
They learned well from Knights Templar.
Any denomination that gets “big” will face similar temptations.
They are attending the seminars by the Clintoon foundation-
How to Fleece the flock and have them begging for more.
With a PG course by BO
At least the ‘old time’ pols tried to (sort of) ‘hide’ their wealth - same as the older ones were a tad bit more discreet with their whoring around.....
Of course these pols of today are the finished product of taking God etal out of the schools etc....
All those 1960s radicals are the ‘leaders’ of the Universities, Senior Government officials.....
This story has nothing to do with that famous 16th century simony. It has to do with filthy-rich Cardinals looting all the resources they can get their hands on.
“Advocate of a poor Church”. If this is their “poverty,” I’d hate to see their “chastity.”
God never got “put in schools” by official readings, so their absence couldn’t take Him out.
God is not like a fluid or gas that we can pump.
They might fare better with the chastity, but again that’s all external.
A church that understands how to be poor can then be responsible before God with riches.
I agree with your general statement(s)
By taking God out of anything I was inferring that we didn’t seem to have these ‘problems’ while prayer was allowed in schools, mangers or menorahs in the town square, calling Christmas Christmas - etc etc
I have often said that if they were to remove ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance, I could live with it because I learned it the ‘other’ way’.
Not a temptation after decades and decades and decades of corruption....it’s a criminal syndicate....and it will stay as that.
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